A simple and highly sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of cyanide in equine blood

Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-138

  Hughes, Charlie ^a   Lehner, Fritz ^a   Dirikolu, Levent ^a   Harkins, Dan ^a   Boyles, Jeff ^a   McDowell, Karen ^a   Tobin, Thomas ^a   Crutchfield, James ^b   Sebastian, Manu ^b   Harrison, Lenn ^b   Baskin, Stephen I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Cyanide; Equine; Horse; Kentucky; MRLS

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALIN; CYANIDE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; SODIUM CYANIDE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOXICOKINETICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; MALACOSOMA; MALACOSOMA AMERICANUM; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 0037496069     PISSN: 15376516     EISSN: 15376524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376510309847     Document Type: Article

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